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In 2025, with the world’s politics in a mess, American playwright, Richard Nelson, wrote and directed a play for Theater on Podil in Kyiv, Ukraine. Throughout the ten weeks of rehearsals for When the Hurlyburly’s Done, he kept a diary. Day after day he was inspired by his six young actresses. They laughed and cried as the play, their characters, their lives and the war entwined. An inspiring and very human story about making art when everything else feels out of one’s control.

Wordville is an award-winning independent publisher with offices in London and Barcelona. We publish exceptional written works about the performing arts.

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Our Books

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Front cover of Stirring Up Sheffield showing Colin George and Sir Tyrone Guthrie at the Crucible
Gordon Raphael The World Is Going To Love Front Cover - Gordon is looking through an eye glass
Cover of CRISIS The Theatre Responds showing Caryl Churchill's play

STIRRING UP SHEFFIELD

(hardback)

Colin George
& Tedd George

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THE WORLD IS GOING TO LOVE THIS

(paperback)

Gordon Raphael

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MOVING MUSIC

Memoirs of Rikki Stein

(paperback)

CRISIS: THE THEATRE RESPONDS (paperback)

Carol Rocamora

SIX YOUNG WOMEN PUTTING ON A PLAY

(paperback)

Richard Nelson

WINNER THEATRE BOOK PRIZE 2022

£30

£17

£18.99

£9.99

£10.99

Bernard Miles at Mermaid Theatre
Oedipus Rex Tanya Moiseiwitsch design
Cover of The Club on the Edge of Town
Cover Breaking into song why you shouldn't hate musicals Adam Lenson
Brickwork cover The Arches

ADVENTURER: BERNARD MILES AND THE MERMAID THEATRE

(hardback)

Alan Strachan

THE PRODUCTION OF KING OEDIPUS

(paperback)

Tyrone Guthrie & Tanya Moiseiwitsch

THE CLUB ON THE EDGE OF TOWN

(paperback)

Alan Lane

BREAKING INTO SONG

(paperback)

Adam Lenson

BRICKWORK (paperback)

David Bratchpiece & Kirstin Innes

£25

£9.99

£12.99

£7.79

£12.99

 A DIARY OF WAR AND THEATRE

 (paperback)

Richard Nelson

Cover Peggy play agent Colin Chambers

PEGGY: THE LIFE OF MARGARET RAMSAY, PLAY AGENT (paperback)

Colin Chambers

£12.99

Cover Dan Hutton Towards a Civic Centre

TOWARDS A CIVIC THEATRE

(paperback)

Dan Hutton

£10.99 / $14.49

WINNER THEATRE BOOK PRIZE 1997

£16.99

£7.99

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Upcoming Events

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On Stage and Screen

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Empire Skate directed by Josh Swade

​Empire Skate chronicles the colorful rise and enduring influence of New York's skateboarding culture in the 1990s, examining the global phenomenon of the brand SUPREME and the skaters who breathed life into this vibrant world.

8:30pm Thursday June 12

9pm Friday June 13

Sunday June 15

Tribeca Film Festival

Village East by Angelika

181-189 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003

Moving Music by Rikki Stein

Join renowned music manager Rikki Stein in conversation with Shain Shapiro about his brilliant memoir "Moving Music"

7:30pm Friday 20th June

The Wanstead Tap

352 Winchelsea Road

London E7 0AQ

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Nowhere by Khalid Abdalla

In this intricate and playful solo show, inspired by his involvement in the Egyptian revolution of 2011, and his experience of the counter-revolution that followed, actor and activist Khalid Abdalla (Mnemonic, United 93, The Kite Runner, The Crown) takes us on a surprising journey into his own history, set against a cartography of seismic world events.

12 - 24 August 

Traverse Theatre

10 Cambridge Street

Edinburgh EH1 2ED

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Our Plays

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101 plays including:

She a play by Anthony Clark
Cover King Hamlin by Gloria Williams
Cover Stray Dogs Theo Chester
Trade by ella dorman gajic
Pandemexplosion by Mark Wheeller
Hannah Lavery play Lament for Sheku Bayoh
Cover two plays by Anthony Burgess
Unmute monologues by young writers Bristol Old Vic Theatre school
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Too Much Punch for Judy cover by Mark Wheellr
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Missing Dan Nolan by Mark Wheeller
Matty May play If you love me
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Cover Funny Peculiar by Vici Wreford-Sinnott
Cover Chicken Burger N Chips by Corey Bovell
visit Salamander Street for plays, monologues, duologues and education resources
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Our Poetry

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10 poetry collections including:

Cover of Douglas Graham Wilson's collection Love and other maladies
Lana McDonagh cover Hope is a Silhouette
Cover of Jo D'arc's collection Minera Wakes
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Front cover of the Anthlogy showing a London street at night and the Celine's Salon logo
cover Juan by Juan by Juan Ramirez Jr
Gommie cover i'm ill with hope

OF LOVE AND OTHER MALADIES

Douglas Graham Wilson

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HOPE IS A SILHOUETTE

Lana McDonagh

MINERVA AND

THE WHIR

Jo D'arc

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UNDER THE SUN OUR HEARTS ARE BEATING

Seki Lynch

CELINE'S SALON - THE ANTHOLOGY Vol 1 & 2

£8

£12.99

£8

£10.99

£10

JUAN BY JUAN

Juan Ramirez, Jr

i am ill with hope

gommie

£10.99

£7.99

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